In my media product, the main character is represented as a pessimistic male teenage who has a bad life and faces loneliness. He wants to get revenge on everyone around him, because he cant stand people who do have a good life and wants to make them feel terrified and miserable.
In the start of the first scene, the audience are introduced to a male teenager and they have no idea who this person is or what he is doing.
The camera shot is a close-up and my partner and I have used many of these to connote the facial expressions and body language to the audience. We can see the character have an angry face through his furrowed eyebrows so the audience can already tell he is depicting his anger and is frustrated at something. This represents his social group as a disheartened teenager through the emotions he is showing in the close up.
By using this over the shoulder shot, we can see the character is typing a blog post on a laptop which connotes he is typing something privately but, since he is in a public place this could show its not very secretive.
The lighting in this shot is slightly darker than other shots which could suggest the audience are not meant to see what the character is typing. This can also imply the character is plotting something dark and mysterious, because the lighting only gets dark when the camera shows him typing on the laptop. This representation portrays him as a mysterious character with a hidden vendetta.
There is a voiceover present over most of the shots in the library and the audience can tell through its tone of voice the character is serious and sounds menacing. The audience also figures out from the dialogue that the character has a bad, hateful life and sounds like he wants to get revenge on people that makes his life bad to gain self-satisfactory.
This scene here has a much different atmosphere than the library scene. The camera shots are more fast paced and has more movement whereas in the library, the camera language was more calm, slow and still. The sound bridge also dictates that as it transforms from a slow, powerful beat to a faster upbeat music which suggests the character may lead a double life; one being calm and a normal average boy and the other being a violent gang member.
We see through mise-en-scene that the character is now portrayed wearing a hoodie which represents typical teenagers in gangs. This connotes that the character has some association with gangs and violence, which is related to him having a bad life and he had to result to this.
My film will not apply Propp's character types as my film is about verisimilitude and doesn't follow the representations used in Propp's character theory. My film will subvert some of the typical representations seen in many British social realism films such as drugs, abuse, sex etc. This is because we want to show different aspects of our society that isn't commonly shown as every person is different.
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